Christiane Amanpour Makes a Fool of Herself
CNN ‘journalist’ Christiane Amanpour just made a terrible fool of herself on international television. She told ‘the world’ that today’s election will “change the world.”
A normal, objective and above all professional journalist would never say such a thing. This election will most definitely not change the world, at least not in such a radical way she supposes.
Rather, her statement – see also this blogpost of CNN’s “Chief International Correspondent” – indicates that she is a hack, above all. An overly emotional, subjective and uninformed hack at that.
Both Obama and McCain will do what they consider in the interest of the United States. Their views may differ to a significant extent, but the goal of both will be to protect America’s interests, not “change the world” (despite Obama’s ridiculously over-the-top rhetoric that he and his supporters “are going to change the world”).
Lets put this stuff in perspective: today’s election is important, but neither candidate is going to “change the world” to any significant degree. Some crisis may happen but we’ll survive those, in the end, and the world… will be the problem.
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I don’t think she made a fool of herself at all. If Obama wins the election the general reception of the US within the global cummunity will go from negative to positive overnight. That in and of itself is a huge change. Obama is a man of incredible substance and intellect, which we haven’t seen in a US President for some time. His potential is great and I expect that he will be a vessel for positive change in the US and the world.